intensive
I worked intensively for more than a year with several translators.
This coastal area has been pretty intensively studied.
It's very important that we intensively investigate the circumstances of this crime.
He travelled intensively through Britain, France, and Italy.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Busy and active
abustle
be (as) busy as a beeidiom
be all goidiom
be at workidiom
be back in harnessidiom
boot
floruit
frenetic
frenetically
gangbusters
girlie swot
peak
plate
rev
run around
run round
run round in circlesidiom
run round like a headless chickenidiom
rush/run someone off their feetidiom
spread

Examples of intensively

intensively
On the other hand, farmers without off-farm employment might have time to manage their systems intensively in order to achieve pesticide use reduction.
The narrative interviews, typically taking 3 -5 hr to complete by telephone, were carried out by intensively trained and supervised interviewers.
This increase has a negative effect on rain-fed crops that employ them intensively relative to other crops.
As a result, more people farmed more land more intensively, putting more pressure on already declining fallow and pasturing practices.
These actin filaments were distributed intensively between the trophectodermal cells, and formed locomotion patterns.
Extensively managed grasslands could prove crucial in catchment management to effectively lock up nutrients trapped from adjacent areas of intensively fertilized crops and pastures.
All rivers located in the mountains are shallow (<1.5 m) with intensively meandering river-beds.
They both improved the operation of the system (by supervising water delivery more intensively and using new techniques) and increased canal maintenance.
With young children, teachers and parents may focus more intensively on the early letters of the alphabet than the later letters.
While forests can be cropped for timber trade, they are also intensively cut for firewood.
She had been discouraged from exercise at school and intensively treated with digitalis since then.
Residential sites (16) have been intensively excavated, including dwellings of the ruling elites, nobles, and commoners.
The results imply that the remaining timber stocks will be more intensively utilized as compared to the forest assets prior to conservation.
It is quite densely populated and is intensively used for agriculture.
In the logic programming community questions related to refactoring have been intensively studied in the context of program transformation and specialization.
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